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It's been a night of it tonight;
LouLou
I've just had her out for her play time, she was running around happily (albiet a little sneezy - I was planning on starting her on Baytril tonight) and eating this treat food that my mum bought the rats for chrismtas - I just put a bowl of it in the bathroom while they are running around for them to try. Suddenly she went really lethargic, frothy around the mouth and looked as if she was trying to hack something up.
Now I'm assuming that she's got something stuck in her throat perhaps - but she seems to have stopped the hacking but is now still incredibly lethargic (she's just laying in Daphne's sick cage, not moving) and 'floppy' - does that make sense? She seems a little restless at the same time - when she's laying she's just slack and not moving, but she is getting up every 5 minutes or so, moving a few steps then laying down again. This is SO not Lou. Is this normal behaviour post-choking? It has come on VERY suddenly. (Her breathing is normal btw)
Someone, anyone????
Ritchie
Second, last Wednesday Ritchie got his back ripped open in a fight with Ray (bad intro!) and got glued up last Thursday. (It was a shallow hole, so the vet glued it together. I cleaned it straight away after the accident, and the morning after - the vet didn't clean it before she glued!) He's now developed an abscess, you can see it bulging on his back underneath the 'scab' (it's quite a large scab as it was hard to glue). Now, I think the glue has caused a stopper on the pus, but I have given it a gentle squeeze and can see a little gunk ooze out. What is the treatment from now? He has seen the vet about this Tuesday, before it got so bad, and she said it seemed fine
. Obviously, I need to start treating this, but how? I've read the abscess sicky tons of time - but unfortunately this isn't 'drawing it out' as much as needing to soften that **** gluey scab to allow it to release.
I've applied Neosporin tonight (luckily it's a spot on his back he can't clean easily) and may soak it tomorrow - but is that safe to do with the glue?
Any help would be great =/
LouLou
I've just had her out for her play time, she was running around happily (albiet a little sneezy - I was planning on starting her on Baytril tonight) and eating this treat food that my mum bought the rats for chrismtas - I just put a bowl of it in the bathroom while they are running around for them to try. Suddenly she went really lethargic, frothy around the mouth and looked as if she was trying to hack something up.
Now I'm assuming that she's got something stuck in her throat perhaps - but she seems to have stopped the hacking but is now still incredibly lethargic (she's just laying in Daphne's sick cage, not moving) and 'floppy' - does that make sense? She seems a little restless at the same time - when she's laying she's just slack and not moving, but she is getting up every 5 minutes or so, moving a few steps then laying down again. This is SO not Lou. Is this normal behaviour post-choking? It has come on VERY suddenly. (Her breathing is normal btw)
Someone, anyone????
Ritchie
Second, last Wednesday Ritchie got his back ripped open in a fight with Ray (bad intro!) and got glued up last Thursday. (It was a shallow hole, so the vet glued it together. I cleaned it straight away after the accident, and the morning after - the vet didn't clean it before she glued!) He's now developed an abscess, you can see it bulging on his back underneath the 'scab' (it's quite a large scab as it was hard to glue). Now, I think the glue has caused a stopper on the pus, but I have given it a gentle squeeze and can see a little gunk ooze out. What is the treatment from now? He has seen the vet about this Tuesday, before it got so bad, and she said it seemed fine
I've applied Neosporin tonight (luckily it's a spot on his back he can't clean easily) and may soak it tomorrow - but is that safe to do with the glue?
Any help would be great =/